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Subject: SOUTHERNE, THOMAS (1660-1746)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DISAPPOINTMENT, OR THE MOTHER IN FASHION: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How comes it, gentlemen, that now-a-days
Last Line: They make it bawdier than a conventicle
Subject(s): Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746); Women


EPIGRAM IN BEHALF OF MR. SOUTHERNE, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Argyle his praise, when southerne wrote
Last Line: They'll fit no man alive.
Subject(s): Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746); Southern, Thomas


PROLOGUE TO THE LOYAL BROTHER, OR THE PERSIAN PRINCE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poets, like lawful monarchs, ruled the stage
Last Line: Of presbyterians who would kings maintain, %of forty thousand five would scarce remain
Subject(s): Catholics; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746)


TO MR. SOUTHERN, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sure there's a fate in plays, and 'tis in vain
Last Line: And the next age will learn to copy thine.
Subject(s): Comedy; Plays & Playwrights ; Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746); Writing & Writers; Dramatists; Southern, Thomas


TO MR. THOMAS SOUTHERNE, ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 1742, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Resigned to live, prepared to die
Last Line: And scorn a rascal and a coach.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746); Southern, Thomas